The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-06-30
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The cornerstone Of the new county court
house at Bridgeport Ct, has been laid with
Masonic honor.
By decree of the court the Boston q Lowell
railroad is to give up the control of the
Northern railroad.
The jury in the case Of James Z. Nowlin,
tried in the supreme judicial court at East
Cambridge, for the murder of Goldman,
Somerville milkman, have returned verdict
of murder in the first degree
East Boston citizens protest against tho
removal Of Postofiice Superintendent Jen.
kins,
The cornerstone of the George Hall
Free Library building has been laid at War
rem, r. l.
The Northern On. H. Railroad Company
will take possession and manage its own line
after the lst of next July,
Thomas Barley OF Cambridgeport at
tempted to commit suicide by taking lauda-
mum, trough on rats, and cutting his throat,
He was conveyed to the hospital where he
died. He leaves widow ami three-year-
Old daughter. BARLEY was machinist and
it is thought his mind was affected by his
head being injured in an accident some time
ago. He became Respondent at being out of
work and unable TO secure employment, ami
the attempt on his life followed BARLEY
was So years old. and his life was insured for
$1,000 in the knights of Honor. He left
note to his wife in which he said: MY
dear Wife: die That you may live. have
no work any more. / am crazy. Look out
for Lilly. God bless you both, You will
have $4,000, and hope you will take care
of it."
Yale defeated Pennsylvania by five lengths
at New London.
All efforts to float the grounded steamer
Providence has been abandoned until the 9Th
IF July.
As an accommodation train on the Boston
g. Maine railroad was approaching Maiden
bridge the axle of the driving wheel broke,
and punctured hole through the boiler and
floor of the cab. The train was brought to a
,tandstilL Messengers tagged the express
train in time to have it stopped within q
short distance of the disabled locomotive.
Nobody was injured.
Edward H. Collins, a locomotive fireman
in the employ of the Fitchburg Railroad
Company, while at work in the railroad yard
was struck by switching engine, receiving
severe internal injuries.
The high water in the Merrimac has con-
tinued, and the pressure of the large nuns
Der Of logs and the great volume of water is
such that the centre of the new Lawrence
bridge was washed away, and the rest will
probably follow. The blow is hard one to
the city, the structure having been COM
plesed less than week. From the dam for
mile up the river only mass of logs can
be seen.
at Lawrence, Mass, while ejecting tenants
% tenement was savagely attacked by
They knocked Moran down and beat
ra With rock. Had neighbors not inter>
. l..a there probably would have been a
a. ,er.
Contoocook n. H, dispatch says: The
| Contoocook and Warner rivers have been
rising since the recent storm, and there is
much submerged grass and crop land A
boom at Davisville broke away and mum,
Der of logs went down tie Warner river.
The water in some intervale fields is foo!
or more in depth.
While William Collins was driving a
horse on Commercial wharf. Boston, the
animal became ballsy, and Collins fastenei
a rope to the amin AZ S tongue, and in his at
tempt to make the beast move, he pulled the
tongue completely out of the horses head.
He was arrested. The horse was killed by
members Of the society with long name.
Gas works and q horse railroad are i'm,
provements proposed in Holbrook, Mass. The
water pipes are being rapidly laid in the
streets
The failure to supply enough doushnuts
to the soldiers who took part in the New
Haven celebration caused so much growing
that committee was appointed to find out
where they all went to. The committee
gravely report that the scarcity was caused
by the members of two veteran organiza
tions using the festive nuts in game Of bast
ball.
All the LIQUOR establishments in Marlboro
have been closed.
Gaudaur trains at Worcester for the 4tl
of July regatta.
The boot and shoe factory of G. H. Burt
Co. in Randolph will open itsdoors on Mon
day, and ali former employees will be per
United to resume work.
Mr.. w. l.. Douglass, the Brockton sho'
man, has lately contracted for advertise
ments in papers whose combined circulation
reaches the grand total of over &c, DOC, 600, O.
nearly the entire population of the Unitec
States This is the largest contract eve
pla ced for advertising in this country.
John Murphy of Dover, N H, for tn
past three years an inmate OF the count
almshouse, makes charges against SUPP
: William T. Wentworth. He claims tina
Wentworth has exercised great cruelty tc
ward him and the other inmates; also tina
Wentworth has sent men to work 70
farmers, and has pocketed the proceeds III
stead OF turning it over to the county
Charges of cruelty were preferred agains
Supt Wentworth five years ago, but fe
through. The county commissioners dc
clined to act on Murphy's petition.
Af,er July II the law recently passed +
prevent illegal peddling and begging b
minors will be in force. This law provide
fine of $500 or punishment by imprisor
ment six months for any parent or othe
GONE TO SEE HIS AUNT.